Dear R friends A while a go I sent an email to the epi-list and later to the help-list and no answer could fully illuminate my question. So Im trying again with a more specific matter.
Im trying to work on a script (function) to analyse data from a diagnostic test meta-analysis with random effects. This was first described by an author using SAS witn PROC NLMIXED. Im not an expert in R and much worst in SAS. So my obstacle right now how to translate this syntax, specially to choose the correct function in R that better fit this SAS syntax with PROC NLMIXED. nlme or lme4? or they both would work well? Original SAS syntax (if it makes any difference?)..... proc mixed data=bi_meta method=reml cl ; /* option cl will give confidence intervals */ class study_id modality; model logit dis*modality non_dis*modality / noint cl df=1000, 1000, 1000, 1000, 1000, 1000; random dis non_dis / subject=study_id type=un ; repeated / group=rec; parms / parmsdata=cov hold=4 to 91; Best regards to all, Pedro Emmanuel Brasil Chagas disease clinical research laboratory IPEC-FIOCRUZ Rio de Janeiro - Brasil [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.